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Beyond the Taj	Beyond the Taj is a collection of visual and written materials assembled to support instruction and research on South Asian architectural expression in the joint perspectives of architecture and ethnography. The visual core of the collection consists of approximately 7000 photographs of works of architecture, pilgrimage locales and domestic life taken in India and Sri Lanka by Professor Robert D. "Scotty" MacDougall (1940-1987), an anthropologist and an architect.
The Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection	The Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection is a collection of materials is derived from Bille Jean Isbell's years of research in the Andes, primarily in the southern Andean department of Ayacucho and specifically in the village of Chuschi, Peru and the surrounding region of the River Pampas Valley in the province of Cangallo. Included in this collection are approximately 1500 photographs, thirteen songs, and Bille Jean Isabelle's To Defend Ourselves: Ecology and Ritual in an Andean Village, as well as selected publications.
Central Library Operations	Central Library Operations (CLO) departments all share the goal to maximize the Library's investment by providing strategic leadership to achieve the timely and enduring acquisition, discovery, delivery, and preservation of content that supports the research and teaching mission of Cornell University.
Cornell Info Competency Initiative	The Cornell Undergraduate Information Competency Initiative, funded by a grant from Cornell University Library and the office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, encourages Cornell faculty to explore creative and effective ways to engage students by integrating research skills into the classroom and the curriculum through the redesign and creation of assignments for undergraduate courses.
CTHEORY Multimedia	CTHEORY Multimedia is an active collaboration of artists, programmers, and theorists who navigate the codes and anti-codes of digital organs in virtual space. Annual editions of net art, digital architectonics and conceptual multimedia, address and reflect on global themes of critical imperative to the digital age.
Cuneiform Library	Cuneiform Library at Cornell University is a product of the combined efforts of the Department of Near Eastern Studies, the Cornell University Library, and the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) at UCLA to make available a substantial collection of cuneiform tablets as an online data set.
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections	The Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections includes 400,000 printed volumes, more than 70 million manuscripts, and another million photographs, paintings, prints, and other visual media. The Rare Book collections document the history of the written word from ancient clay cuneiform tablets to an extensive representation of works by 20th-century authors. The collections support research in fields such as medieval and Renaissance studies, the Reformation, 18th-century France and England, American history, Anglo-American literature, Icelandic history and culture, the history of science, and women's studies. Other collections focus on medicine, ornithology, witchcraft, human sexuality, the graphic arts, New York state history and agriculture, and architecture and city planning. The Division also houses the Cornell University Archives, which includes records of the founding and growth of the university as well as an extensive collection documenting regional history.
Entrepreneurship@Cornell	Drawing on the strong entrepreneurial and business skills of its faculty and the resources of one of the world's great research universities, Entrepreneurship@Cornell enables Cornell students and the wider community to develop the knowledge they need for business creation and success.
The Fantastic in Art and Fiction	This site provides a visual resource for the study of the Fantastic or of the supernatural in fiction and in art. It is also intended to open the door to consideration of some of the constant structures and patterns of fantastic literature, and the problems they raise.
Global Performing Arts Database	The Global Performing Arts Database (GloPAD) is a project of the Global Performing Arts Consortium (GloPAC; see description under Projects). GloPAD includes images, sound recordings, video clips, and 3-D models of the world's performing arts with detailed descriptions in standardized formats to enable effective cross-cultural searching.
Human Ecology Historical Photographs	This Web site provides a database of selected images and information from the records of the College of Home Economics. The photographs are organized by general subjects: Resident Teaching; International, National, State, and Local Public Relations; All-College Activities; Administration and Personnel; Departments and Divisions; Buildings and Equipment; History of the College; and Miscellaneous.
Images from Cornell's Rare Book and Manuscript Collections	This site presents digital reproductions of images from the University Archives and from rare books and manuscripts held by the Cornell University Library.
Muller:Kluge - Conversations between Heiner Muller and Alexander Kluge	Muller:Kluge consists of a set of interviews/discussions between the West German writer and film maker Alexander Kluge and the East German playwright Heiner Muller, all of which were videotaped and some of which were aired on German television between 1988 and 1995.
Mysteries at Eleusis: Images of Inscriptions	Mysteries at Eleusis is a database of images of ancient inscriptions on stone from Eleusis. The images currently available are derived from photographs copyrighted by Professor Kevin Clinton (Department of Classics). The documents are all from the sanctuary of the Eleusinian Mysteries, at Eleusis, a town belonging to Athens. "The Mysteries" were one of the most important religious cults in ancient Greece. The festival culminated in secret rites within the sanctuary of Demeter and Kore at Eleusis, which was located about fourteen miles west of Athens. Hundreds of people from all over the Greek world converged annually on Athens and Eleusis to take part in the sacred rites over the course of a week, and they were pledged to secrecy on penalty of death.
Partners in Animal Health	Partners in Animal Health is a collection of innovative, reliable resources for veterinarians and pet owners, developed by veterinary experts at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine.
Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art	Partners in Animal Health is a collection of innovative, reliable resources for veterinarians and pet owners, developed by veterinary experts at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine.
Vanished Worlds, Enduring People	Vanished Worlds, Enduring People: Native American Collection showcases materials from the Huntington Free Library's Native American Collection, transferred to Cornell University on June 15, 2004 from its former home in the Bronx, New York. With more than 40,000 volumes and thousands of manuscripts on the aboriginal peoples of the western hemisphere, the Native American Collection is now the centerpiece of Cornell University Library's extensive holdings on American Indians. Its wide-ranging array of documents support inquiry into almost any topic relating to indigenous peoples, from the pre-contact era to the present day, and spanning the hemisphere from the Arctic circle to the southern tip of South America.
The Vicos Collection	The Vicos Collection is a collection of documents produced by thirteen years (1952-1965) of collaboration between North American social scientists and some 360 peasant households in the northern Peruvian highlands. This collection covers four documentary sets: scanned images of paper files that illuminate critical variables of cultural change in the region; some 2,000 images, selected from a much larger cache of analog prints and negatives; the guide to collection, held in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections; and an associated website, Vicos: a Virtual Tour.